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On the last warm Friday before November settled into a deep freeze, Mayor Dawn Zimmer was seen near First and Garden streets, apparently taking care of city business downtown. At the same time, Councilwoman Beth Mason strolled along Washington Street near 11th Street, possibly on a similar mission. In some ways, these two figures make …
With the Board of Education election out of the way for another year, Hoboken politicos can focus their attention on the upcoming mid-term municipal elections. Six of nine City Council seats will be up in May of 2015. But there are tea leaves to read in the Hoboken school board results, in particular, the larger …
Nearly 86,000 people went to the polls this week in Hudson County to vote in municipal, county and federal elections, the results of which will become tea leaves to read for future elections. Next year, several key elections take place around Hudson County. While Democrats did well in retaining their seats locally, the election proved …
Just in time for the Jersey City school board election on Tuesday, the school district has come up with a positive report on the progress of the schools. In the last meeting before voters get to select from pro and anti-schools-superintendent candidates, Superintendent Dr. Marcia V. Lyles told the board that statistics justified the district’s …
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Speculation has raged over who leaked the damaging information that led to the resignation of Muhammed Akil as chief of staff to Mayor Steven Fulop. Most agree it was an inside job, someone who had access to information not readily available to the public. Twenty-year-old newspapers from Akil’s college days at Northwestern University were mailed …
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop has backed off a controversial plan that would have allowed New York City garbage to pass through the Greenville Yards at the south end of the city. At the height of his efforts to get City Council approval for the move, he compared the trash plan to the Spectra gas …
When I lived in River Edge I sang to Tony Bennett — or, more realistically, I sang at him. At that time my neighbors were the Benedettos. The singer was born Anthony Benedetto and my neighbors were his mother and sister. Almost every weekend a big, black limo would pull up in front of their …
When I lived in River Edge I sang to Tony Bennett — or, more realistically, I sang at him. At that time my neighbors were the Benedettos. The singer was born Anthony Benedetto and my neighbors were his mother and sister. Almost every weekend a big, black limo would pull up in front of their …
Some people can never escape their past. What you say in the past, no matter how distant or how much you’ve changed since, comes back to haunt you. This is a lesson that Muhammed Akil learned this week when a speech he gave in college two decades ago resurfaced to haunt him. Twenty-five at the …
Looking ahead, the mid-term 2015 municipal elections in Hoboken may seem a bit like déjà vu all over again if reports are to be believed that former Assemblyman Ruben Ramos will seek to unseat incumbent 4th Ward Councilman Tim Occhipinti. Bad feelings between the two political figures apparently still linger after both men ran unsuccessfully …